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like all the plagues,—coming from a distance to New York or
Chicago to try, until they have first done advertising i n the offices
of their own home-towns or neighboring towns and have made good
there. The great cities deal tragically with the unsuccessful in any
line. A n d they are f u l l of bitterly disappointed women who think
they can write advertising because they can construct a f a i r l y good
advertisement. M y dears, anybody can write an advertisement
who can write at all. A l l college women can. I hope I have made
you feel that to play the real game one has to buckle down and
learn it from the beginning.

I t pays better than most things when you do. I t teaches l i f e

wonderfully.
College women are f a r better equipped f o r its prizes than any

other women are. N o t only because they know more and write
w i t h ease and have their knowledge accurately and have the g i f t of
tongues, but also because they are accustomed to t a k i n g instruction
and understanding its d r i f t .

I f anybody wants to try and has the stuff to succeed, call on m e ;
I am glad to help always. I t really is not as h a r d as i t sounds.

B u t , — O h ! children dear, I ' d so much rather have you a l l get
married and keep out o f the dust of the modern business w o r l d !

S T E L L A GEORGE STERN P E R R Y , Alpha, '98.

BACTERIOLOGY AS A PROFESSION F O R COLLEGE

WOMEN

There are today a moderate number of positions open to women
in municipal or commercial laboratories and as assistants to phy-
sicians who are doing research work. T h e work is not hard, is ex-
tremely interesting, pays fairly well, and offers fair chance f o r ad-
vancement. W h i l e the possession o f an M . D . degree is a great
help, it is by no means essential. There are of course certain things
that none but physicians can do, but the technical laboratory work
can be done by one who has not studied medicine. I n a commercial
laboratory the lack o f a doctor's degree is much less o f a handicap
than i n a municipal laboratory which is usually controlled by the
Health Department, and has f o r its object, assistance to physicians.
Commercial or industrial laboratories concern themselves with the
preparation of bacterial products f o r therapeutic use; that is, the
purely technical side of medical bacteriology; or bacteria in their
relation to industrial products.

A bacteriologist should have some knowledge o f chemistry, both
organic and inorganic, ( a n d i f one is fortunate enough to have had